• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Always has been. Nobody was saying “okay boomer” to senior citizens. It was always to Gen X and now it’s being applied to Millennials. If you have songs on your playlist from the 2000s and don’t watch tiktoks, you’ve become a boomer.

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      9 months ago

      Okay boomer was an insult for the baby boomer generation, now it’s being used for anyone older. Both are acceptable.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah it was originally shit like “you sound like a 60 year old trump supporter who hasn’t gotten with the times”. It was “I’m not going to bother fighting with you, so I’m going to treat you like the uncle i only deal with on thanksgiving”

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        9 months ago

        Ah, so it means anyone who you disagree with who happens to be a few years older than you… So it’s pointless?

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          No they don’t have to be older. If I had a friend who was a year older than me and I said “battle passes, looter shooters, and tik tok are dumb” he could call me a total boomer.

          It’s about someone harnessing an older perspective.

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          9 months ago

          Bigotry requires prejudice, boomers aren’t clumped together, just called out when the situation requires it.

          Calling someone a Karen isn’t bigotry so why would boomer?

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              9 months ago

              Funny, are you being prejudiced against people who use boomer and Karen and clumping them all together…?

              That’s mighty bigot and hypocritical of you.

              Context matters, if someone uses the term correctly and not prejudiced against an entire group, why shouldn’t that be allowed? There goes supporting my drag queen friend and gay associates I guess, can’t call them gay apparently.

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      9 months ago

      You think we were saying “okay boomers” to people barely a few years older than us?

      It was always about baby boomers, the entitled generation.

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      9 months ago

      It was always to Gen X

      No it was definitely to Baby Boomers, then it morphed into an insult that you direct at anybody acting like a boomer/giving off Boomer energy (hence calling Gen X/Millenials/any non-boomer out with “ok boomer”)